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@ WWHID. The cost in excess baggage to get what he did buy home would be far greater than the cost to ship the items.  That's if he was allowed to do it in the first place.  |
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| I've managed to bring back stuff like HID lamps, small fluorescent lamps, misc ballasts, small fluorescent battens and incandescent lamps on international trips but I usually travel light and I brought a large suitcase so I had the room to. Just gotta pay attention to the max size of the suitcase you can bring and the max weight allowed. The few times I did it, I didn't really have to pay anything extra as I managed to fit everything within the 2 checked bags, 50lb each allowance.
My main concern was with breakage but I managed to bring most of that back with minimal breakage. Larger items like luminaires, longer fluorescent lamps and larger HID lamps would probably be more of an issue.
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| The problem I see here is that it's a school trip, visiting central London, which isn't big on electrical/lighting stores.
We don't have stuff like discharge lamps and ballasts on retail sale here, we don't have places like Restore. So where are you going to find this stuff, never mind transport it back home..?
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| Yeah, I suppose it's going to be hard to get some free time to go hunting for lighting equipment if he's on a school trip. It'd sure raise a few eyebrows that's for sure.
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I thought those were replaced?
There’s still a small group of SRPs left in portions of the parking lot, along with some rare SOX acorn post tops. |
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| I see, hopefully they remain.
@joseph_125, Yea there's probably zero chance of me bringing back anything lighting related, except for photos.
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| Some things to bring home on an international trip via plane would include catching maintenance crews in the act of performing LED conversions and asking if anything could be saved or small roadkilled street lantern components. Personally, if I go on an international trip via plane, I would rather bring something lighting related back home rather than nothing. On my first trip to London, I brought home a B22 ceiling mount lampholder and a LED B22 bulb as a travel souvenir. While I looked at the installation instructions for my ceiling mount B22 lampholder, the wiring seemed rather complicated because I was not used to seeing multiple wires dedicated for certain functions such as "switch" wires and "loop" terminals. I was simply used to installing fixtures by matching the live wires, neutral wires, and "earth" wires. For me, buying something lighting related gave me a somewhat better understanding of the lighting systems used in Europe.
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DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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I see, hopefully they remain.
@joseph_125, Yea there's probably zero chance of me bringing back anything lighting related, except for photos.
In some cases, North American members inexperienced with European lighting would think it is dangerous to operate European lighting in North America. |
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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On what do you base this assumption..? I'm curious  |
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| Some North American members would often say to NEVER run European HID lamps on North American ballasts because they have NO ANSI code.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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| I'm curious where you got this impression of this from too. Especially since you just made a wide sweeping statement that implies all of us say something like that.
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| I had this assumption because I have often seen many North American members tell other people to only operate HID lamps on the correct ballasts by matching up the ANSI codes.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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| Ok people, can we get this topic back on track, please..? It is supposed to be about what Cree will see on his forthcoming London trip.
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